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hezky česky! any pronouns, everything is on here - matching pfp with @newsthaturdead - (credit to @semi-artomatic) art collection sideblog: art-sillyrascalheroshepherd

[superkawaiimothman]

are you in a good headspace to witness my vast and terrible wingspan

[thenewsthaturdead]

@sillyrascalheroshepherd u dragging your board games everywhere

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Voting ended onJul 30

[probuccalfat]

i have a Persian agenda where i encourage every man i know to grow the longest and prettiest hair possible

[probuccalfat]

personal agenda. Personal.

[argentcochon]

[probuccalfat]

i’m speechless. there’s a guy for everything.

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags which bands/artists you've listened to the most, lately

[taelusive555]

imagine if you woke up and your name was your url and you looked exactly like your icon

[aloisjirasekbignaturals]

a reminder that you can write whatever in your journal

[jiksvokrat]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Context: the women, Martina Sáblíková and Nikola Zdráhalová, are both speed skaters

[rainbowsuitcase]

Actually lemme put the picture here bigger because they're so beautiful

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And some education because I can't resist: Same-sex couples can't actually get married in the Czech Republic. They can only enter a civil union, or as we call it, registered partnership. Though currently, since last year, the only difference from marriage is the name and that the couples can't adopt together, though stepchild adoption is allowed. We're working on it.

[moon-muffin]

[sunderwight]

"humans are space orcs" this and "humans are the jack-of-all-trades race" that and "humans are the ones with a reputation for trying to fuck everything" and etc but you know what I don't see too often?

humans are the moms

compared to other species on earth, humans have a really outsized "protect baby" instinct. you give a human a thing and tell them it's actually a baby thing and many humans will suddenly develop a complete and total aversion to harming it, even if it's like, a writhing mass of slimy tentacles in no way reminiscent of human infants

cats domesticated us by figuring out that they could leave their kittens with us when they went out hunting and come back and probably still have the same number as before they left. there is a decent chance that wolves did the same thing

word gets around the less parenting-inclined species and they're just like, are you doing a long haul space voyage? going to have to lay some eggs in the course of the trip? take a few humans with you. yeah they'll just start training the young and keeping from them climbing into the machinery themselves you don't even have to find specialists. I know a guy who budded unexpectedly on a freight hauler halfway through a four year trip, and not only did the humans not eat his spawn, they set up this thing called "babysitting" where they'd take turns monitoring its survival and helping to teach it basic skills

hazard is that if you're going anywhere with xenofauna, you have higher than normal odds of the humans trying to smuggle some weird creature aboard ship, though. you gotta watch 'em. on their own homeworld their officials have to put up goddamn signs telling them not to feed dangerous wildlife or try to touch the babies. most of 'em do understand the regulations and about potential bio hazards but there always seems to be at least one that loses their goddamn minds because some avian chick got caught in a mudslide or something

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

how it feels to message a friend who's having Problems that you can't do anything to help with.

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

#i appreciate how genuine and non-judgemental this comic feels #like left one is not upset at right one for caring while being powerless #and right one seems genuinely distraught and not performative

I'm glad the facial expressions are coming across accurately! It can feel so absurd to say gosh I hope the torment maze removes some fire and rusty nails soon, but alas, sometimes that's all one can do.

[zzoupz]

anime girl pose

[scribeherself]

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

[scribeherself]

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

[thelightfluxtastic]

I love that it's Olruggio's decision (and of course it is). I love that Qifrey never lied. he found out the truth from the library and Olruggio was the first person he told, right away. And they followed the answer Olruggio came up with.

When Chapter 40 happens, it's a shock. It's a betrayal, even if it's one we can understand and sympathize with.

But then, we find out, it never was at all. Qifrey has been lying to Olruggio for over a decade because he's still being painfully faithful to the Olruggio of his childhood, honest to that moment of truth.

[frownyalfred]

do I even need to caption it at this point

[gingik]

[iplaycomputer]

nature is beautiful